Marty's Ƀent Issue #1073: Mining scuttlebutt from the Bitmain conference Stop playing their game. Make them play ours. The Truth is on our side.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #989: Are we at the precipice of the "suddenly" part of currency debasement? Hold on to your butts, freaks.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #881: The miserable fiat shills are at it again This is something we should all be paying attention to as bitcoiners because it is a Trojan Horse to attempt to ban individuals from being able to run full nodes.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #869: Bitcoin in the Senate I cannot wait to see the discourse that ensues once Cynthia begins educating her colleagues about Bitcoin.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #839: Signs of a mature market? The charges against BitMEX were a loud shot across the bow of the industry.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #577: Was there a hashrate crash yesterday? Yesterday's "hashrate crash" is probably more accurately described as "normal and expected interblock time variance".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #565: Big picture Monday While we do believe it is important to be aware of your surroundings and the state of our current condition. It is also imperative to keep the big picture in perspective.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #549: Reminder: Bitcoin distribution is fair Everyone's a scammer, freaks. Especially those selling knock-offs that attempt to denigrate Bitcoin over a non-existent "distribution problem".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #523: Surveillance tech crawls forward > "Worse yet, the students can’t opt out. “It’s a binary choice for the kids,” Bulger said. “A teacher told me years ago, ‘If you want to opt out of using the Google education suite, then you’ll also need to opt out
Marty's Ƀent Issue #509: Tradeoffs are important to consider Bitcoin has decided to take the hard route on its journey towards sufficient decentralization, and this makes people very uncomfortable.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #462: Credit creation on Bitcoin Up to this point in Bitcoin's history, exchanges have been notoriously terrible at securing peoples corns. To the point that many casual observers tend to wrongly equate terrible exchange security with the Bitcoin protocol being insecure.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #433: Protect ya neck, keep Bitcoin companies in check While I still don't trust Coinbase as far as I can throw them, this particular example of reacting to public outcry is a good sign of the overall health of Bitcoin, whose Social Layer demands neverending vigilance against the gravitational pull of centralization.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #415: Supporting the levels As we can see from the above thread, there are about 850,000 BTC to be mined between now and the next halving, which should happen around Memorial Day Weekend next year.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #352: The battle for Bitcoin's soul We are currently in a lull after a long fought war over the blocksize. The dust is settling, narratives and marketing pitches are being fine-tuned and consolidated, and the bear market is beginning to bore the hell out of everyone. There will be more turmoil ahead.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #349: Bitcoin-Is-Worse-Is-Better What a lot of these "experts" fail to realize is that Bitcoin is more of a monetary phenomenon than a cutting-edge breakthrough in cryptography. And this fact, when it isn't fully understood by said experts, seems to fly right over their heads.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #326: A peek into the future If you're into Bitcoin, it is imperative that you develop the mind and practices of a stoic. This means being able to visualize the future and the many ways it may play out, accepting things for what they are, and preparing yourself for those many different potential futures accordingly.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #109: Setting the record straight Back to my original point, if you see someone attempting to equate the #No2X movement with Core, #note who said it. This person doesn't get how Bitcoin works.
